• Title/Summary/Keyword: socio economic carrying capacity

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Determining the Optimal Number of Users of a Forest-based Recreational Site : For the Case of Book Han San National Park (산림휴양지(山林休養地)의 최적(最適) 이용자수(利用者數) 결정(決定)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究): 북한산(北漢山) 국립공원(國立公園)의 경우)

  • Choi, Kwan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.79 no.3
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    • pp.231-244
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    • 1990

  • As the complexity of society increases, the demand for the forest-based recreational site is also increased. This, in turn. makes congestion an ubiquitous type of externality in forest-based recreational site. Efficient resource allocation requires this congestion effect to be accounted and considered in the decision making process. In this content, this study was conducted to suggest a process which can be used to measure the congestion and determine the optimal number of users. Willigness to pay(WTP) function obtained from Book Han San National Park users suggested that every 20.000 users increased decrease the satisfaction of users obtained from the site visit be 27.3%. For the purpose of demonstration this WTP function is applied tit determine the optimal number of users which is estimated as about 73,000 persons per day.

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